In a Rut

Sketches help me so much when I'm in a a scrapping rut. Thanks to the weekly sketches at Creative Scrappers, I was able to come up with this layout:




The journaling is a poem by Emily Matthews that I found at Scrapbook.com:
Believe in yourself -
in the power you have
to control your own life, day by day,
Believe in the strength
that you have deep inside,
and your faith will help
show you the way.
Believe in tomorrow
and what it will bring -
let a hopeful heart carry you through,
For the things will work out
if you trust and believe
there's no limit
to what you can do.

Here's the sketch:




I attended the Scrappin Moms Idol Finale held last Saturday, here's the layout I did for the challenge sponsored by Lasting Impression using GCD studios papers. I'm definetely not an "on the spot" scrapper...